Two years after the devastating earthquakes shook Haiti, Federation and it's partners are doing a world of good! More news after the break from our friends at JDC!
For 8th grader Fabienne and her fellow students at the Zoranje educational campus, learning is the order of the day at a new, state-of-the-art, handicap-accessible middle school built and opened by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). That's because two years after the earthquake, JDC has focused its relief work on children’s education and disabilities-related programming in collaboration with its Haitian, Israeli, and other NGO partners. Through $8.6 million dollars in donations from the Jewish Federations of North America and tens of thousands of individual donors, JDC’s projects, including the middle school, have impacted nearly 300,000 Haitians to date.
“Our past experience has proven that for children and disabled people to begin to fully recover after a disaster, we need to restore some sense of normalcy to their lives and invest in their future. By providing much-needed educational facilities and first-class physical rehabilitation and accessibility, we’re helping to build a generation of Haitians better equipped to handle the long road ahead,” said JDC CEO Steven Schwager.
The middle school, which was funded by The Bonita Trust and JDC, is located 30 miles outside of Port-Au-Prince on the Zoranje educational campus which also contains a kindergarten and elementary school. The schools follow the national education curriculum and offer modern teaching methods, extracurricular activities, and supplemental art, music, science, and language classes. JDC also equipped the campus with a wate
r system, a source of clean water for the whole community, and built a mother/child clinic operated by Partners in Health (Zanmi Lasante). The clinic will serve as a health education center, teaching children and parents about basic hygiene and disease prevention. The educational campus is operated by JDC’s Haitian partner PRODEV.
In its work with disabled Haitians injured and impacted by the earthquake, JDC established a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center at Port-Au-Prince’s HUEH (l'Hôpital de l'Université d'Etat d'Haïti). This center, together with a prosthetics clinic and special occupational therapy teams in tent cities, continues to provide unparalleled service. More than 3,000 people have directly benefited from these rehabilitation services, including many lower and upper limb amputees. A JDC-Afya Foundation workshop is also training Haitians to create functional products such as a clamped mortar and pestle for one-handed people as well as to fix wheelchairs and walkers. You can learn more about these and many other programs at www.jdc.org/haiti
r system, a source of clean water for the whole community, and built a mother/child clinic operated by Partners in Health (Zanmi Lasante). The clinic will serve as a health education center, teaching children and parents about basic hygiene and disease prevention. The educational campus is operated by JDC’s Haitian partner PRODEV.
In its work with disabled Haitians injured and impacted by the earthquake, JDC established a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center at Port-Au-Prince’s HUEH (l'Hôpital de l'Université d'Etat d'Haïti). This center, together with a prosthetics clinic and special occupational therapy teams in tent cities, continues to provide unparalleled service. More than 3,000 people have directly benefited from these rehabilitation services, including many lower and upper limb amputees. A JDC-Afya Foundation workshop is also training Haitians to create functional products such as a clamped mortar and pestle for one-handed people as well as to fix wheelchairs and walkers. You can learn more about these and many other programs at www.jdc.org/haiti
In 2012, JDC will continue its investment in physical rehabilitation services at HUEH and in the tent cities; build a new school in the community village of Fondwa replacing the school that was completely destroyed in the earthquake; provide community service programs through the Zoranje campus; engage in leadership training for Haitian civil society; ensure the continued integration and services for children with disabilities in schools; and provide vocational training in the areas of construction, plumbing, carpentry, nursing, and telecom services.
Among JDC’s operational partners in Haiti, are: The Afya Foundation; Catholic Relief Services; Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic; EcoWorks International; Heart to Heart International; International Medical Corps; The International Rescue Committee; The Israel Trauma Coalition; Magen David Adom; MASHAV; Sheba Medical Center; The Bond Street Theater; The Coady International Institute; The Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces; Partners in Health (Zanmi Lasante); PRODEV; UNICEF Haiti; USAID Haiti; U.S. Fund for UNICEF; and World ORT.
About JDC
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. JDC works in more than 70 countries and in Israel to alleviate hunger and hardship, rescue Jews in danger, create lasting connections to Jewish life, and provide immediate relief and long-term development support for victims of natural and man-made disasters. To learn more, visit www.JDC.org.
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